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COPY PRESSl` l No. 430781. Patented-June 24,1890.'

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EMILA ANTON LINGNER, OF LEIPSIO, GERMANY.

COPY-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 430,781, dated June 24, 1890.

Application led January 16,1890. Serial No. 337,147. (No model.) Patented in Germany January l0, 1889, No. 47.637; in England April 22. 1889, No. 7,019, and in Austria-Hungary April 26, 1889.

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, EMIL ANTON LINGNER, a subject of the King ot' Saxony, and a resident of Leipsie, No. 3 Hain Strasse, in the Kingdoni of Saxony, German Empire, have invented some new and useful Improvements in Oopy-Presses, ol which the following is a clear description, and for which I have obtained patents in Gernlany, No. 47,637, on the 10th ot' January, 1889; in England, No. 7,01), on the 22d of April, 1889, and in Austria-I'Iungary on the 26th of April, ISSS).

My invention relates to a copy-press by means otwhich it is possible to produce a goed clear copy of letters or any other manuscripts, and at the same time the copy-press is so small that it can be conveniently carried in the breast-poeket of a coat. For this reasonvin y improved copy-press is invaluable for commercial travelers.

In order to make the following description more clear, I refer to the accompanying' drawings, in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is an end elevation of the press. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

The roller runs in the frame k, which is pivoted in frame 7L, and to which the handle o,y is pivoted at f. Roller c runs in frame 7L, which is provided with the supports or feetg g.

The apparatus is operated in the following manner: The handle a must be held in the left hand and pressed backward, whereby the top roller b will be pressed upward. The copy-book d is then laid between the two rollers b and c, the press held in the slanting position on the table, and the handle a pressed downward. The copybook must now be pulled and pushed forward and backward between the two rollers two or three times, when the manuscript will be found to have been copied distinctly. The handle ais pivoted at f, and so, after the copying is iinished, can be turned round inthe position shown in Fig. l, and the copy-press conveniently placed into lthe breast-pocket.

The frame 7L is provided with feet g g,

which are provided with a cloth covering to prevent their slipping about on the table. These feet are pivoted to the lower bar of the press, and may be turned round so that the press may be conveniently packed into a fiat case.

Instead of the feet g] g, pivoted to frame 71, I can make the same of india-rubber, in which case they may be so small that they will pass into the narrow pocket-case, and in consequence it is not necessary that they should be pivoted to the frame, as they may consist of two rivets projecting` beneath the Aframe and provided with india-rubber knobs or coverings.

Having thus fully described and explained the nature of my invention, what l desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1sl. The combination, with the frame 71. and the roller c journaled therein, ot' a roller I), having its bearings in frame 7;, pivoted to frame h, roller Z) being adapted to be pressed by means of a hand-lever a on a book drawn through between the two rollers, for the purpose substantially as described.

2. The combination, with frame 7L, having roller c, and frame k, having roller b and pivoted to 'frame 7?. in the manner speciiied, of the feet g g, pivoted to Aframe 7L, and of handle a., pivoted to trame k, Jfor the purpose described. v

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twolwitnesses.

EMIL ANTON LINGNER.

CARL BORNGRAEBER, HERMANN CHRISTEN. 

